Word: pt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well-placed bet. Presumably, the purpose of suspending classes two weeks before exams is to permit review and consolidation of the preceding term's work. Certainly the freshman, taking 4 1/2 courses plus PT, is entitled to this much faith. In answer to recurrent fears that the gift will promote vacation attitudes, it is enough to assume that few freshmen are cocky enough about their standing to take the risk...
...White House. "This," said Kennedy, "makes me happier than ever that such a directive has gone out." To some Washington hands, the crack grated as a needless rasp for the Navy's capable chief, who was a distinguished combat commander when Jack Kennedy was learning to run PT boats...
...reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered the big presidential desk. Beside them was the coconut shell on which Navy Lieut. Jack Kennedy had scratched a message asking for rescue after his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer during World...
Last spring von Stade and Parker decided to abandon the decision of the Administrative Board and try "on an experimental basis" a new plan under which any student who found PT a "hardship" could appeal to the Dean's Office for relief...
...Stade feels that "circumstances which make PT a hardship are very rare." He said that not only the amount of time spent, but the nature of the job must be taken into consideration before granting a student extra cuts...